There are plans to build in Kherson Commercial Sea Port on the Dnieper river left bank new terminals for cargo handling, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine said.
The port expansion project will be implemented under the General scheme of the Kherson sea port development until 2015. The expansion will allow the port to boost cargo throughput up to 8 million tons a year, create 347 new jobs and double the payments to the budgets of all levels, the Ministry said.
Port of Kherson was founded in 1778. The port has 10 berths and 13 loading platforms and 2 railway platforms. Kherson sea port is engaged in transshipment of cargo at outer anchorage and in handling coastal cargoes.